Set for sixteen characters, small chorus and chamber orchestra, Jonathan Harvey's Passion and Resurrection is a major BBC live performance recording of The BBC Singers and Sinfonia 21 conducted by Martin Neary and featuring baritone Stuart MacIntyre as Jesus.
By reviving the practice of Latin church dramas where the audience or congregation participates in the singing of the plainsong hymns, Harvey emphasizes the ritualistic rather than conventionally operatic nature of the work. The music and instrumentation reflects the division between the austere, dark, male-dominated music of Passion and the florid, bright, female-dominated Resurrection. With Passion and Resurrection, his most ambitious recording to date, Harvey reaches out and touches the sublime.

Daniel Biro returns with what can only be described as a Biblical concept album. Featuring Gareth Davis on bass-clarinet, the Vocal Motions Singers choir, as well as traditional Jewish ram's horns, 'A Still, Thin Sound' is nevertheless a full-on electronic experience in two contrasting movements. Commissioned by the European Association for Jewish Culture the first piece revolves around the sound of the Shofar, the ram's horn blown during the traditional Jewish High Holidays, and the second, around the bass-clarinet representing the individual struggle experienced by the prophet Elijah to attain enlightenment and divine communication. 'Elijah' was specifically written for Davis and his mastery of extended playing techniques